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Dancin in the streets:
Grateful Dead from what is considered as their all time greatest show 5-08-77
Stevie Wonder at the White House! ://
And the original Martha Reeves and the Vandellas!
The only time I ever saw people dancing in the streets was after the SF49ers beat the Dcowboys in 81 (the Catch) after the game in San Francisco. You couldn't drive anywhere, people just flooded out of their homes and danced. Never seen it since.
Black Friday's Matter! (How long till we see this one?)
I should be in advertising I think.
Was Ohio's Marijuana Vote Stolen? TV Screen Shots Show Massive Number of Votes Flipping
Televised screen shots taken Tuesday night of live election returns in Ohio provided by the Secretary of State's office showed hundreds of thousands of votes flipping from the "yes" to "no" column of Issue 3, the ballot measure to legalize marijuana.
When seen against the backdrop of Ohio's longstanding history of Republicans manipulating the vote count to obtain the outcome they seek, such as in the 2004 presidential election when Ohio returns elected George W. Bush to a second term, there are compelling reasons to question the official result where the pot measure went down to defeat.
To understand the context for this likely chicanery, you have to understand the backdrop of current Ohio politics.
According to the election night returns provided by Secretary of State Jon Husted, the people of Ohio defeated a November 3 proposition to legalize marijuana by a tally of nearly two-to-one.
MORE HERE: http://www.alternet.org/drugs/was-ohios-marijuana-vote-stolen-tv-screen-shots-show-massive-number-votes-flipping
Everybody on the Bernie Boat!
https://goo.gl/photos/srFgVhABc4G3QcXh8Saw this at a music festival this weekend. Funny.
Move Over Bitcoin, Here Comes PotCoin
Bitcoin has been the standard cryptocurrency for awhile now, but now there's a new competitor aimed at the marijuana industry.
Crytocurrencies such as Bitcoin are used by people who want to make anonymous financial transactions, but now there's a new kid on the block and it's aimed right at an economic sector it desperate need of ways to deal with millions of dollars in cash.
The economic sector is the "legal" marijuana industry in the US, and the cryptocurrency trying to tap that market is PotCoin. Actually, it's not the only one, but it does appear to be the one with the best chance of competing with Bitcoin, according to the Cryptocurrency Times.
Because marijuana remains illegal under federal law, pot shops and related enterprises are largely unable to use traditional financial services like banks and credit card providers to take care of business. The financial institutions are afraid of being prosecuted for money laundering or similar charges by the feds, and while bills have been filed to address the marijuana banking problem, none of them has yet to pass.
Thus, many of these pot businesses are operating on a cash-only basis, which is not only inconvenient, but also dangerous. And since pot businesses lack a non-physical way of completing secure transactions, if there is one industry for which cryptocurrencies make sense, it is the US marijuana business.
MORE: http://www.alternet.org/drugs/move-over-bitcoin-potcoin
Think Trump will somehow try to crash the Dem debate?
He is in Vegas at the Trump whatever the fuck ("the tallest hotel in town"
(really the third tallest) and now Hillary has kind of given him all the incentive by crashing a Labor rally outside his building last night: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/hillary-clinton-donald-trump_561c5817e4b050c6c4a29bc2
I am looking for some big time Trump shenanigans.
White Lady Lets Jesus Take Wheel, Does Donuts In Road, Hits 2 Cop Cars, No Shots Fired (VIDEO)
If you’ve ever wondered, “What is white privilege,” you need look no further than a nice, white lady who did donuts in the street with her car, endangered numerous lives, rammed two police cars, and ranted about Jesus for a while — and lived.
An unnamed, obviously mentally disturbed white lady became possessed by the spirit of Jesus on Thursday, when she began driving in circles at the intersection of Ozark Avenue and North New Hope Road in Gastonia, North Carolina. As she embarked on her holy crusade against…apparently other vehicles on the road…the woman waved her arm out of the window and screamed incoherently.
According to Gastonia Police Capt. Rodney Aldridge, when an officer arrived on the scene, the officer asked for the woman’s name, which she told him was “Faith, hope, and love.” The officer attempted to calm the woman down, but she backed up and rammed his car with her Jesus-mobile. A witness says the officer had to jump out of the way to avoid being run over by the crazed Christian’s vehicle. The woman rammed the police officer’s car a second and third time before she resumed driving in circles on the road.
The woman proceeded to ram two more civilian cars and another Gastonia patrol vehicle before driving over an embankment and flipping her own. Police and a bystander rushed to pull the woman to safety. According to witnesses, the Jesus-possessed woman was screaming for bystanders to “look up” and to “pray for” her. As she was exiting her vehicle, the woman even sang a bit of Jesus Loves the Little Children,” witnesses say.
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/10/09/white-lady-lets-jesus-take-wheel-does-donuts-in-road-hits-2-cop-cars-no-shots-fired-video/
White man trying to buy gun shoots self in penis — blames it on a black guy
South Dakota man is currently in custody after telling police officers he was shot in the penis by a “black guy” when he actually shot himself while attempting to purchase a gun illegally, reports the Argus Leader.
Convicted felon Donald Anthony Watson, 43, was admitted to a local emergency room late at night on Sept. 6 for a gunshot wound to his penis, and told local law enforcement that he had been shot during a botched robbery.
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/09/white-man-trying-to-buy-gun-shoots-self-in-penis-blames-it-on-a-black-guy/
You really can't make this shit up. even if you wanted to.
11 Ways White America Avoids Taking Responsibility for its Racism
am white. I write and teach about what it means to be white in a society that proclaims race meaningless, yet remains deeply divided by race. A fundamental but very challenging part of my work is moving white people from an individual understanding of racism—i.e. only some people are racist and those people are bad—to a structural understanding. A structural understanding recognizes racism as a default system that institutionalizes an unequal distribution of resources and power between white people and people of color. This system is historic, taken for granted, deeply embedded, and it works to the benefit of whites.
The two most effective beliefs that prevent us (whites) from seeing racism as a system are:
that racists are bad people and
that racism is conscious dislike;
if we are well-intended and do not consciously dislike people of color, we cannot be racist. This is why it is so common for white people to cite their friends and family members as evidence of their lack of racism. However, when you understand racism as a system of structured relations into which we are all socialized, you understand that intentions are irrelevant. And when you understand how socialization works, you understand that much of racial bias is unconscious. Negative messages about people of color circulate all around us. While having friends of color is better than not having them, it doesn’t change the overall system or prevent racism from surfacing in our relationships. The societal default is white superiority and we are fed a steady diet of it 24/7. To not actively seek to interrupt racism is to internalize and accept it.
As part of my work I teach, lead and participate in affinity groups, facilitate workshops, and mentor other whites on recognizing and interrupting racism in our lives. As a facilitator, I am in a position to give white people feedback on how their unintentional racism is manifesting. This has allowed me to repeatedly observe several common patterns of response. The most common by far is outrage:
How dare you suggest that
More. Here: http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/11-ways-white-america-avoids-taking-responsibility-its-racism
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